R.I.P.: Seiji Ozawa (Boston Symphony Music Director)

[erik]

I don't know how I missed this, but, evidently, on February 6th, the classical music world lost a great conductor, in the form of Seiji Ozawa. The Japanese-born conductor held down several important conducting posts, including in Toronto and San Francisco, but his best-known post was from 1973 to 2002 as the music director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the longest in that great U.S. orchestra's history. Mr. Ozawa was 88:

www.bostonglobe.com/2024/02/13/opinion/seiji-ozawa-boston-symphony-orchestra-legacy/
www.yahoo.com/news/seiji-ozawa-boston-symphonic-orchestra-220233781.html

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[RobGNYC]

Of course Dorothy got it. How gorgeous is his sign-in? I will never not be dazzled by writing with Japanese characters. He recorded my all-time favorite version of Prokofiev's Romeo & Juliet.